Anti-Flag:Stars And Stripes Lyrics

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Welcoming with open arms and with open heartsIn the end they found their arms in shackles and their hearts torn outThis country named America is built on gravesOf the natives who lived here before genocide took placeThe word America means freedom as in, free to kill the free...

Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meDon't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meFor ME!

It's the same today as then, as U.S. dollars are spentTo rid the native insurgence in Mexico, in every U.S. Corporate interestsThe 3rd world is a modern day playground for multinational companiesAnd the tax dollars we're forced to pay, fund these heartless U.S. policiesTheir explanation... national interest, national security...

Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meDon't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meThey stand for greed, they stand for hate but nothing I believe!Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, For me

At little big horn national cemetery, there's a monument that reads:To the soldiers killed in Montana while clearing hostile Indians away...'And there's a flag there flying high, over the fallen killers' gravesWhen they call on me to die for them I'll say... not me!

Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meDon't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, for meThey stand for greed, they stand for hate but nothing I believe!Don't fly those stripes, those stars-and-stripes for me, For me